Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 2/3] tests: make pc_alloc_init/init_flags/uninit generic

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:31:55PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/09/2016 14:25, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:50:31 +0200
> > Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 08/09/2016 04:04, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:17:56PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:  
> >>>> And add support for ppc64.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>  
> >>>
> >>> Some of my coments may be obsoleted by the discussion with Greg.
> >>>   
> >>>> ---
> >>>> v2:
> >>>> - remove useless parenthesis, inline
> >> [...]
> >>>> +
> >>>> +QGuestAllocator *machine_alloc_init(void)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +    const char *arch = qtest_get_arch();  
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we need to add a qtest_get_machine_type().  
> >>
> >> I'm working on that...
> >>
> > 
> > The problem is that qtest only knows about archs, based on $(TARGETS).
> > Maybe the machine type could be the default one for a given arch ?
> 
> Once the machine is started we can use QMP[1] to ask the machine type
> (for instance, "pseries-2.7-machine").
> 
> So what we could do is a generic qtest_machine_vboot() which ask the
> machine type and configure the qtest framework accordingly.
> 
> Laurent
> [1] { 'execute': 'qom-get', 'arguments': { 'path': '/machine',
> 'property': 'type' } }

Ok.. doesn't the qtest framework start the machine though?  So it
should already know the machine type, shouldn't it?

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